The heartbreaking wonder

“Architecture is not based on concrete and steel and the elements of the soil. It’s based on wonder.” The man who said that, Daniel Libeskind, was announced the winner of the design competition for Canada’s National Holocaust Monument Monday. Libeskind, best known for the Ground Zero memorial and Freedom Tower in lower Manhattan, is the son of Holocaust survivors. While the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington has become one of that capital’s most visited sites since its opening in 1993, this will be Canada’s first national Holocaust monument. The project, which will incorporate appreciation of the contributions of Holocaust survivors to Canadian society, is set to open in fall, 2015.